The Circle of Trust Archive

The Circle of Trust is the paid subscriber content for listeners of the Adventures In Design podcast. Containing over 300+ episodes and 500 hours of design, illustration, printing and business tips n tricks. Hear every episode in it’s entirety! The Circle of Trust has the full Adventures In Design audio catalog, featuring every episode with bonus content added or you can choose to go straight to the bonus content. Every topic possible on following your creative passion as a hobby or career has been covered in this collection and we’re not even close to finishing the conversation adding another 200 episodes in 2016.

Illustrator Phil Guy sits in to talk about his love of illustrating the seventies, managing a big Instagram account and finding his way back to Ohio to keep life profitable.

Talking Points You’ll Hear on Episode 251- The dizziness of looking at characters with an extra set of eyes.- Line weight and characters that call back to the illustration style of the seventies counter culture.- How guys keep finding and bringing back to life the look of the seventies.- Things we find as kid and have no idea what it is we truly have stumbled upon.- Realizing as an adult that the cool kids in your neighborhood probably weren’t that cool.- How Phil Guy used a well curated Instagram account to grow his audience and grow his business. - A good tattoo artist versus a bad one, thinking long term and not overworking the piece.- Running your own store fulfillment to better know your customers.

Circle of Trust (Paid Member Content)- The pain of T-Shirt design, giving shape to the shapeless design. - Playing it safe with commercial art when you really wanted to be an artist. - The larger the social media audience, the engagement weakens. - Managing a large social media account.- The expectations of free information through the internet.- Using a brush and inking the perfect line versus trying to recreate that perfection.